Ainissa Ramirez is a materials scientist and author of The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another (MIT Press, 2020). She’s based in New Haven, Connecticut.
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How An Undertaker Helped Develop Computers, And Other Untold Stories
A materials scientist on the unexpected stories of how our technologies came to be—and the surprising ways they’ve shaped us.
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How Two African-American Employees Exposed Polaroid’s Role In Apartheid South Africa
In materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez’s new book, she tells the story of a pair of Polaroid employees exposed the company’s involvement in a police state.